While we don’t know how far the scope of the iCloud product will extend, Apple’s implication in its press release that called iCloud a ‘cloud services’ product is that it extends beyond just music. The revenue sharing agreement, however, indicates that the majority of the money involved is being spent on music.

Cloud services tend to deliver more on convenience than buzz and excitement (at least for me), so the free period is a great tactic to hook users. If Dropbox didn’t have a free plan, I would never have given it a try.